President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" on this day in history, March 12, 1933, to reassure and inform a nation reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. This was the ...

Actually the top rate had increased not decreased to 25 percent, in 1930 from 24 percent in 1929. But that’s a minor point. When Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the top income tax rate had stood ...

Ninety-one years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled off the greatest heist in American history. Unlike most robberies, this one was entirely legal. No safe-cracking was required; no ski ...

The idea of measuring an American president by the accomplishments of his first 100 days in office goes back to 1933 and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's dash to staunch a banking crisis and pull ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was 91 years ago, and then-president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt had just finished speaking to a crowd in Miami, from the ...

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Part one: The education of a Hudson River conservationist, 1882-1932. "All that is in me goes back to the Hudson" ; "I just wish I could be at home to help mark the trees" ; "He knew every tree, every ...

If Gus Menafee ever has a son he will probably name him Franklin Roosevelt Menafee. During the War, Gus was a seaman on the destroyer Fanning. When a petty officer was said to have attacked him with a ...

America is drowning in bank failures, mass unemployment, and collapsing prices when Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in on ...